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Washington, D. C„ As Viewed
By Yonr Senator,
A. Willis Robertson
FOREIGN TRADE POLICY
MAY BE HARMONY TEST
A warm feeling of friendship and mutual respect exicts between Republican leaders of the Senate and Southern Democrats and this permitted the new session to start on a harmonious note.
On issues of international cooperation and mutually beneficial international trade, however, President Eisenhower may find, before the end of the session, that he has more solid support from the Southern Democrats than from some of his own party leaders.
I am gravely concerned not only over the 12 percent over-all drop in farm prices during the last year but also over the greater drop in the price of cattle and the recent reaction of commodity markets to Prime Minister Churchill’s statement that war in 'Europe is less imminent now than it had been previously.
Virginia farmers face the prospect of lower prices next year for cotton, wheat, tobacco peanuts, with little prospect of relief from higher operating expenses. Their problem can be made much more serious if there is a further drop in agricultural exports and that is inevitable unless we stimulate rather than weaken our foreign trade program.
During coming weeks my best attention will be given to the question of how we can protedt the farmers of Virginia and of the nation from what next year could be a depression for them, notwithstanding prosperity in
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